Sentences with phrase «common ancestor for»

The earliest calibrated radiocarbon date was used as a prior estimate of the time to the most recent common ancestor for all island fox samples.

OESCA members have urged me to identify the closest common ancestor for CA in the Old English Sheepdog, so that the breeders can judge for themselves that almost everyone is at risk with this disorder.

Without the diagnosis of Prospectblue Marie - Louise, one of these prolific breeding dogs would be the closest common ancestor for the defective gene, although any could be a carrier.

This breed is thought to serve as a common ancestor for modern water dogs including the Poodle.

Fossils Indicate Common Ancestor for Old World Monkeys and Apes.

Since two of the three related groups use only somites in vertebral development, Criswell concluded that the common ancestor for all jawed vertebrates had a backbone derived from somites.

Studying animals that show similar hemispheric biases for their own vocalization — like primates, sea lions and horses — could reveal important clues about how ancient language - processing mechanisms are, she adds: «Evolutionarily, this could go far beyond primates to a common ancestor for all mammals.

The team found that the last common ancestor for all placental mammals lived in the late Cretaceous period, about three million years before the non-avian dinosaurs became extinct 66 million years ago.

Humans and fruit flies may have not shared a common ancestor for hundreds of millions of years, but the neurons that govern our circadian clocks are strikingly similar.

That we could interbreed with a truly distinct group again suggests a common ancestor for H. neanderthalis and H. sapien, particularly in the context of the temporal and geographical relationships these two groups have with H. erectus and H. heidelbergensis.

The times to the most recent common ancestors for the Belgian and Australian G1P [8] rotaviruses ranged from 1846 to 1955 depending on the gene segment, with VP7 and NSP4 resulting in the most recent estimates.

If you go back several generations, you'll find common ancestors for all the Flat - Coat population.

Not exact matches

There is plenty of evidence for evolution (althought we didn't come «from apes,» but from a common ancestor with apes) and literally no evidence that we were created as is by a deity.

The theory ABOUT evolution most widely accepted is an updating of Charles Darwin's hypothesis that all of today's species descended from common ancestors due to natural selection based on best current fitness for constantly changing environmental circmmstances.

Advances in the field of genetics provide powerful support for Darwin's theory of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

As for Chimps, they and us had a common ancestor unlike either of us — and it made no choice either.

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Here's the majors, so plan accordingly for your place in this life or the next: 1) there is not a single fossil to evidence mankind's evolution from some so - called earlier form (see missing link) however we do however have mountains of DNA evidence showing we have common ancestors with primates — so you either believe in a Creator, or Aliens, or actual evolution or a mix of any of the three.

I'd just like to point out for people who are confused about that, we don't come from monkeys, we share a common ancestor.

Even large parts of medical research would be rendered unusable but for the fact that monkeys and mice share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs.

At this moment it is a good explanation for the Origin of different species from a common ancestor, thats all!

Look, how can you accept what I just wrote, but still have a hard time with ho.mo sapiens sapiens (human beings) sharing a common ancestor with, for example hom.o sapiens neandethalis (Neanderthal man).

I marveled at a chart that showed a diagram of the tree of life, where relationships between different mammalian species were figured out solely by comparison of their DNA sequences, providing powerful support for Darwin's idea of descent from a common ancestor with natural selection operating on randomly occurring variations.

Christians in affluent countries in the twentieth century have grown used to such a fast pace of life and to such constant changes in the material environment that we tend to think that our problems are unique, that the past is worthless as a source of wisdom for modern times, and that our ancestors in the faith have little in common with us.

Mar. 18, 2013 — Buried for 100,000 years at Xujiayao in the Nihewan Basin of northern China, the recovered skull pieces of an early human exhibit a now - rare congenital deformation that indicates inbreeding might well have been common among our ancestors, new research from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Washington University in St. Louis suggests

Here one finds the dull report of the census - taker, the uninspired but minute directions for the performance of the cult, stories of man's beginnings and that of many of the common experiences of his life, such as language, relationship of races, why the rainbow; colorful stories, of the might and prowess of ancient ancestors of the race, riddles, puns, fables, prayers, songs that have become almost the universal songs of the human race, the history of the rise and fall of dynasties, the preaching of reformers and prophets, the questioning of it all by men grown weary of the struggle, proverbial sayings of great wisdom; the dreams of conquest both of earth and heaven.

Years ago, Foncéka's team at the Regional Center for Studies on Plant Drought Resistance crossed Fleur 11, a common peanut variety in Senegal, with a hybrid of the peanut plant's ancestors, A. duranensis and A. ipaënsis.

Palaeoanthropologists often use chimps as «proxies» for our common ancestor, so Ardi's debut may mean that much of what we think we know about human evolution will have to be rethought.

«Genetic Adam» is the popular term for the common male ancestor of all humanity.

There are two possible explanations for this arrangement: Either each of the species evolved different ways of creating supersoldiers, or the mechanism evolved with the earliest common ancestor about 35 million to 60 million years ago, according to Moreau.

To test this hypothesis, an international team led by evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences in China and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, set out to see how many brain - related genes implicated in schizophrenia underwent positive natural selection since humans and chimpanzees diverged from a common ancestor between 5 million and 7 million years ago.

Named the «last universal common ancestor», or LUCA for short, it has left no known fossil remains, nor any other physical clues to its identity.

The search for a common ancestor linking modern humans with the Neanderthals who lived in Europe thousands of years ago has been a compelling subject for research.

They analyzed 24 nest characteristics, including shape, material, and building behaviors — such as tree - hollowing, leaf - stripping, or plant - macerating — looking for common materials or methods shared by different species that would point to a recent common ancestor.

The results, published in July, radically revise the timeline for equine evolution, revealing that the common ancestor of contemporary horses, zebras and donkeys originated at least 4 million years ago, twice as far back as previously thought.

The team hopes their work will lead to further research on Y chromosomes as vehicles for studying human history — and tracing male lineages back to the common «Adam» ancestors.

It's about as old a common ancestor as we have for the living baleen whales like the minke whales and the right whales.»

Comparing their gene sequences established that they likely diverged from a single common ancestor between 1902 and 1921, suggesting HIV has been in human populations for at least that long.

Today's mollusks are a wildly diverse bunch, from octopuses and oysters to snails and slugs — a modern miscellany that has made it tough for scientists to envision what the group's oldest common ancestors looked like.

And it's too early for H. heidelbergensis, which arose in Africa and Europe about 650,000 years ago and is thought by many researchers to be the common ancestor of humans and Neandertals.

Similarly, the enzyme RNase T2, which breaks down a material called RNA in insect cells to produce food for plants, had multiple evolutionarily convergent amino acid substitutions in C. follicularis and a common ancestor of N. alata and D. adelae.

Findings published in PLOS Biology suggest for the first time that life's Last Universal Common Ancestor (LUCA) had a «leaky» membrane, which helps scientists answer two of biology's biggest questions:

He starts with a pair of lines — one for humans and one for Neanderthals — that split off from a common ancestor no more than 700,000 years ago.

He says this idea has «very profound» implications for the debate over the origins of bacterial genes that are present in the human genome but absent in our closest relatives (Science, 8 June, p. 1903): The amount of conjugation Waters detected is «high enough to readily explain» the possible infiltration of bacterial genesinto our DNA, meaning that conjugation could have happened quickly enough to add genes only to humans, in the years since they split from the common ancestor they shared with chimpanzees.

Biologists have argued for decades over whether the two basic eye plans of vertebrates and invertebrates evolved independently or originated from a common ancestor.

Most researchers believe that humans shared a common ancestor with chimpanzees and bonobos between 5 million and 7 million years ago (for a different take, see ScienceNOW, 27 February).

Meet our last common mammalian ancestor Small, furry and with a penchant for insects, the greatest grandparent of all modern placental mammals lived after the dinosaurs were wiped out.

A common ancestor of birds and mammals may have had a membrane for protecting the eye and sweeping out debris.

In a separate study, a team at the University of Reading in England reviewed cognates (similar sounding words in different languages for the same object or meaning, such as «water» and the German «wasser») to determine how all Indo - European tongues progressed from a common ancestor that existed between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago.

By looking for areas with distinctively rapid mutation, his team hoped to pinpoint a human genetic signature — stretches of DNA where change has been selected for over the 6 million or 7 million years since the two species shared a common ancestor.